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Hearsay what?
100
This case forced all states to recognize interracial marriages.
What is Loving v. Virginia?
100
The fifteenth amendment prohibits the denial of suffrage based on race, color, or this.
What is previous condition of servitude?
100
This is the number of objections commonly used in Mock Trial; it's also an unlucky Friday.
What is the number 13?
100
This is the number of hearsay exceptions commonly used in Mock Trial; it's also then number of amendments in the Bill of Rights.
What is the number 10?
200
All though this case was settled before arguments were heard, it remains the very first case brought before the court.
What is Maryland v. Van Staphorst?
200
These amendments are often grouped together and referred to as the "Civil War amendments."
What are the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments?
200
The objection everyone should be supremely sick of.
What is hearsay?
200
This exception is only used for entering exhibits into evidence.
What is regularly kept business record?
300
DOMA was declared unconstitutional in this recent case.
What is United States v. Windsor?
300
This amendment enfranchised women.
What is the nineteenth amendment?
300
This exception would allow for a murder victim's last words to be admitted into court.
What is dying declaration? (Brownie point for saying, "What it declarant unavailable?")
400
The fourteenth amendment was instrumental in this case.
What is Roe v. Wade?
400
The branches of power are covered in this part of the Constitution.
What are articles 1, 2, and 3?
400
This objection would be used when a medical doctor begins to testify car engines.
What is beyond the scope?
400
This exception would allow an itinerary for a vacation to be admitted.
What is statement of plan?
500
These are the nine supreme court justices.
Who are Justices Scalia, Thomas, Alito, Ginsberg, Breyers, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Chief Justice Roberts?
500
The 24th amendment ended these.
What are poll taxes?
500
This objection would be used if a lawyer said to his own witness, "You went to the store that day, didn't you?"
What is leading?
500
This exception would allow for the following statement to be admitted into court: "Help! Help! There's been an accident! Somebody help!"
What is excited utterance?